I hate those maps, they are full of shapes and roads. when they are imported not only online editor lags, someone also manages to draw some roads "out of sky" and they are hard to fix because of zillion polygons around :(

those objects make map look cool when rendered, but i know plain road schema is enough for routing.

Maybe this can help someone (or maybe someone can suggest me better one). I have this few years old Sony Ericsson W300i and a bluetooth GPS device. The software I am using is TrailExplorer by Tommi Laukkanen. I am using version 1.10 because newer one didn`t work for me.

I always save gpx kml and track, because saving gpx for more than approx. 1 hour long trail hangs up and work is lost. Then I just convert it from KML to GPX using some home-brewed php script (but it ain`t that good anymore).

I`ve always liked the idea of making maps here until recently. I thought that process of making is carrying gps device with you and later on drawing roads on that gpx track and no copying of other material is allowed.

I`ve driven more than half of my city, street by street with my bicycle, but recently I red on our local OSM list that roads can be imported from local government or whatever (of course permission and proper license is needed)? So this actually means my effort for nothing, because roads will be rewritten later.

Is it true?

now, when OSM is updating my tracks/edits really fast and good data is collected, there`s a question:
are there map/api/features like google maps has? can i include osm map and maybe some pins "just like that" on my blog or some other place with some embed/javascript code?

trying to figure out the best path for riding all block is rather confusing. I should have paid more attention at school when studied graphs :/

This is really nice seeing that my track was imported in just a 10 minutes. Last week i remember the time to wait was shorter than few monthes back when i started uploading tracks.. and now in last days it has gotten even shorter!

Thanks OSM team, this really makes me want to make more tracks!

Mobile GMaps is great software - I like the web-tracking feature using gmap-track.com and I like, that it can use OSM maps.. but I have several problems:

- My friend cannot use it on Nokia 63xx anymore. It just stopped working and when he triest to start it, it hangs.
- Web tracking is just uploading my last position.. but i cannot download track data from that website.. so it`s still kinda useless.
- I cannot see Mobile tracking to work.. cause I dont know how to export tracks
- I still miss some more advanced geocaching service with it. Like when it can search on wap.geocache.org for tracks near or near specific "favourite" location (i am using them ar markers for geocache points)

Maybe I should post this one on MGMaps forums also :)

Last weekend I was making map of next sector in my hometown. I set resolution to 2meters and after 1hour (15km) I wanted to export data to gpx.. but it failed. TrailExplorer (for mobile phone) just says "saving" and nothing happens. Good thing i checked the "save track" box this time, so i could export to at least kml..

Yeah and then come in the difficulties with OSM or maybe the kml file. I converted it to gpx using gpsbabel, i filtered out tracks, later on i saw that markers (with km and speed) are still there, so i carefully opened file with text aditor and removed wapoing tags (from to ). File was pretty ok (if we dont count some random line in the beginning (but that could be when gps just started and made some initial glitch)..

I uploaded it to OSM and could even edit.. but yesterday`s evening it was gone.. I uploaded it one more time but this morning it is gone again.. so I uploaded it one more time..

what could be the problem? :(